River Retreat Campground

When we first drove into River Retreat, it was spring. I let the season and the weather cloud my judgement. You can judge the whole campground by the entrance. The sign is old and faded. Letters are falling off or missing. You pull in and there are potholes large and deep enough to cause a small car to bottom out. I should have turned around right there. If you can't even present a welcoming and well kept entrance, then you can imagine what the rest of the campground is like. The place is dirty an unkempt. The toilet house was out of hand sanitizer the ENTIRE season, because it was on ""back order"". Well, go buy the huge jugs at Sam's Club and stick it on a folding table by the door. There are junked golf carts and lawn mowers just sitting in the middle of camp across from the ""play ground"". It is a shame, because the place has potential. It just isn't going to reach it under current management not with the way the handle the little or BIG things. more

OMG.....is all i have to say about this place..after what happen there this past weekend of being in a small crowd of permanet campers and having one of the owners relatives come over to where the small group was.threaten to pull a gun out and claimed he was an police officer which he was not.who also begun to get in several permant campers faces chest bumping them looking for trouble and a fight and he even approach a female threating her when she said to call the owner or the cops which then this man claimed he was the cops when he threw his wallet up on an outside bar..then his wife had to come over and grab him by his face and drag him away...this was so non-sense when all the guy had to do was ask properly and like an adult to please be a little bit quieter instead of approaching with a fight...this really got heated cops were called and the owner which was not present at this time did not wanna here the other side from her tenants so 10 of the resisents pulled out they were treated like dirt it was very unprofessional done with no class this place is a dump filled with pot holes dirty nasty bathroom rusted up derby cars trucks, tractors, motors just everywhere...also health department has been there several time even put a stop to them building a shower house cause it wasnt up to code..oh and the best one is watching the wife(owner) calling the cops on here husband and having him escorted off the property because he was so drunk and stripped his shirt off running threw the campground screaming and using vulger langage in front of our children.after this past weekend seeing what happend and how the so called owner handle the situation was disgusting and below my standards as a permant camper we were part of the group that pulled out..I do not recommend anyone taking their family here it is very dirty and ran unprofessionally and you never know whats gonna take place we were warned when we first moved in about the owner Janet(owner) to watch our back she is crazey and boy did we see that this past summer...WOW is all i have to say about this place unbelieveable on how someone runs an so called business...Hillbilly drama will never ever go back here again.....EVER\r more

The location is great, the upkeep is terrible. If you can get past all the potholes, you will find your site amongst the trash that lines the campground in ways of a suburban on blocks, demo car, old tractors, lawn mowers, and a barn that has been 10 years+ in the making. Did I mention it only has 1 shower for the entire campground?\r Now that I have told you about the location, let me go into the owner. She needs meds-CRAZY-very unprofessional. Allows her family to threaten other campers, while she looks away. Does not want to hear complaints about her family even if they are rude or threatening others with a gun! WTF! We loved the people who camped there (quite a few left with us), but not the drama that surrounded the owner. Good ridance! Save yourself some drama and money. Go somewhere else. more